Chocolate
Mascots "Wenlock and Mandeville"

Taste:
5

Texture:
4.5

Novelty:
2

All
scores out of 5

I'm
going to do something for this review that I rarely do... in fact
I don't think I've ever done this before in a review. I'm going to
focus on the strangeness of these Olympic mascots, and not on the
candy. You might ask why I would do this, since this is a site all
about reviewing candy, it's simple. The chocolate used to make these
mascots is fantastic. It's a beautiful milk chocolate with a small
center full of bubbles. The chocolate is exceptionally smooth and
tasty. It melted really well in my mouth, and just a little on my
fingers. As far as flavour and texture go, it's pretty much perfect.
My only complaint would be the bubbles in the center, I only complain
about that because I want more chocolate because it was so good.

Now back to these mascots.
I'm not really sure what the Olympic committee had in mind when they
came up with these two. Maybe children's nightmare might be one idea.
A shinny, children's nightmare with logos pasted all over them. Don't
get me wrong, I've actually liked some Olympic mascots, in fact I
absolutely loved the mascots for the recent Vancouver Olympics. I
even went so far as to buy a stuffed Quatchi (he was the Sasquatch)
from those Olympics.

I just don't understand
these two, they seem ultra modern, strange, and emotionless Nothing
particularly cute, or interesting about them at all. The names are
strange enough that there might be something interesting there, but
the characters themselves just don't do it for me. If anyone has an
explanations that might explain their freakish look please let me
know.

But these chocolates are
fantastic, and eating the likeness of these two was a little gratifying.